Jisc – driving efficiency in higher education

With the ‘Working for a smarter, stronger sector: the 3rd annual Efficiency in HE’ conference only a day away, the Efficiency Exchange asks Professor Martyn C Harrow, chief executive of Jisc, to talk about the importance of efficiency to Jisc.

Efficiency at Jisc’s core

Jisc’s vision is to make the UK the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. Over the last couple of years, since the Wilson Review of Jisc, we have changed, and are accelerating the pace to change, going all-out to best serve the higher education, further education and the skills sectors.

Efficiency is in Jisc’s DNA, and at the heart of our new strategic framework. We are confident that we are saving our sectors over £200 million per annum (compared to their achieving the same without us). We will work with sector colleagues to increase that saving to over £300 million as quickly as possible, and soon allow individual institutions to track and optimise their own share of the benefit.

Jisc is proud to support this event. I hope you can make it along this Thursday to see our chief innovation officer Dr Phil Richards lead a workshop on ‘digital approaches to smarter working’ and meet Patrick Bellis and Rob Bristow on the Jisc stand.

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Events

This conference will explore how universities are using their global networks and partners to achieve more far-reaching knowledge exchange impacts and create new international business partnerships in other regions of the world.

This year’s event will tackle the challenges and opportunities that come with increased competition and choice in the sector off the back of momentous higher education reforms. Delegates will gain an exclusive introduction to the Office for Students, learn how to establish their institution as an international brand, debate the drive for digital in the sector and identify ways to enhance the student experience.

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